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OpenShift by Red Hat

OpenShift is Red Hat's free, auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS) for applications. As an application platform in the cloud, OpenShift manages the stack so you can focus on your code.

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19 hours ago by avinash

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OpenShift is Open Source | OpenShift by Red Hat

OpenShift is Red Hat's Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications. OpenShift Origin is a collection of open source components that are used in the OpenShift Platform as a Service.

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19 hours ago by avinash

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Deconstructing Red Hat’s OpenShift: The Q&A – tecosystems

Red Hat has been focused on the cloud for some time. A few years ago during a conversation with CTO Brian Stevens, he mentioned in an offhand way a company called Makara, and recommended that we look at them. Which we did [coverage]. Almost a month to the day after we shot that video, Red Hat acquired Makara. Post acquisition, CEO Issac Roth was tasked with building out Red Hat’s PaaS capabilities and given access to resources across the company, including personnel from Red Hat internal IT and the support teams.

OpenShift is the result of those efforts. The Makara code plus some RHEL isolation features, the JBoss EE runtime, and other pieces gives you a top to bottom technology stack.

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Should You Move Your Small Business to the Cloud? | PCWorld Business Center

cloud computing has its shortcomings (more on that later); but small businesses looking to cut computing costs and improve efficiency during this long recession are finding the many benefits of Internet-based software and services increasingly attractive. In fact, companies with 100 or fewer employees are expected to spend $2.4 billion on cloud computing services in 2010, up from $1.7 billion in 2009, according to Ray Boggs, vice president of SMB research for IDC.

Here’s what you need to know about cloud computing: what it is, pros and cons, suggested services, and tips for applying it to your business.

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21 days ago by avinash

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How Browsers Work: Behind the scenes of modern web browsers - HTML5 Rocks

This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals (see Resources) and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code.

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21 days ago by avinash

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Air France Flight 447: 'Damn it, we’re going to crash’ - Telegraph

With the report into the tragedy of Air France 447 due next month, Airbus’s 'brilliant’ aircraft design may have contributed to one of the world’s worst aviation disasters and the deaths of all 228 onboard.

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28 days ago by avinash

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Exclusive: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft Swarm China for Network Gear | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook buy more networking hardware than practically anyone else on earth. After all, these are the giants of the internet. But at the same time, they’re buying less and less gear from Cisco, HP, Juniper, and the rest of the world’s largest networking vendors. It’s an irony that could lead to a major shift in the worldwide hardware market.

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5 weeks ago by avinash

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Facebook Investor Roger McNamee Explains Why Social Is Over - Business Insider

Microsoft is toast because we're moving to a post-PC era;
HTML5, the new web standard that allows to make interactive web pages, is going to revolutionize the media and advertising industries;
Social is "done", it's now a feature, don't go do a social startup.

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february 2012 by avinash

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Cutting the Cord on Cable - WSJ.com

Dear Cable:

Before I say anything else: It's not you. It's me.

I've changed over the years. I'm hardly at home. And when I am, it's not live television I'm watching. It's stuff that's been queued up on my DVR for weeks. But mostly, when I'm on my couch with a remote in my hand, I've been…streaming. I know how wrong that must sound. But everyone's getting their shows and movies through the Internet these days. I'm sorry. It's just the reality of things.

I'm quitting you, cable.

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january 2012 by avinash

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The Restart Page - Free unlimited rebooting experience from vintage operating systems
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january 2012 by avinash

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Freakonomics » Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions

Last week, we solicited your questions for Internet security guru Bruce Schneier. He responded in force, taking on nearly every question, and his answers are extraordinarily interesting, providing mandatory reading for anyone who uses a computer. He also plainly thinks like an economist: search below for “crime pays” to see his sober assessment of why it’s better to earn a living as a security expert than as a computer criminal.

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december 2011 by avinash

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Chrome Experiments - Home

We think JavaScript is awesome. We also think browsers are awesome. Together, they can do some beautiful, magical, crazy things. And that’s why we created this website.

Chrome Experiments is a showcase for creative web experiments, the vast majority of which are built with the latest open technologies, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. All of them were made and submitted by talented artists and programmers from around the world.

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november 2011 by avinash

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus to launch on 17 November - Telegraph

Samsung Galaxy Nexus to launch on 17 November #android #smartphone #technology #google

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november 2011 by avinash

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Daring Fireball: The New Apple Advantage

This realization sort of snuck up on me. I’ve always been interested in Apple’s products because of their superior design; the business side of the company was never of as much interest. But at this point, it seems clear to me that however superior Apple’s design is, it’s their business and operations strength — the Cook side of the equation —that is furthest ahead of their competition, and the more sustainable advantage.

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september 2011 by avinash

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Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the World - WSJ.com

I'm privileged to work with some of the best of the new breed of software companies, and I can tell you they're really good at what they do. If they perform to my and others' expectations, they are going to be highly valuable cornerstone companies in the global economy, eating markets far larger than the technology industry has historically been able to pursue.

Instead of constantly questioning their valuations, let's seek to understand how the new generation of technology companies are doing what they do, what the broader consequences are for businesses and the economy and what we can collectively do to expand the number of innovative new software companies created in the U.S. and around the world.

That's the big opportunity. I know where I'm putting my money.

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september 2011 by avinash

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Linux Based Devices

Linux is everywhere.

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told us, "You use Linux every day but you don't know it. It's such a fundamental part of our lives.

"The world without Linux might be a very different place. It's one where computing is kind of crappy and homogeneous. You're still using Windows CE on your crappy Windows cell phone. That world is grim and dark and Linux is a reason why that world doesn't exist.

"It runs air traffic control, it runs your bank, and it runs nuclear submarines. Your life, money, and death is in Linux's hands, so we can keep you alive, clean you out, or kill you. It's incredible how important it is."

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august 2011 by avinash

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Literate Programming - Nobody Understands REST or HTTP

The more that I've learned about web development, the more that I've come to appreciate the thoroughness and thoughtfulness of the authors of the HTTP RFC and Roy Fielding's dissertation. It seems like the answers to most problems come down to "There's a section of the spec for that." Now, obviously, they're not infallible, and I'm not saying that there's zero room for improvement. But it really disappoints me when people don't understand the way that a given issue is supposed to be solved, and so they make up a partial solution that solves their given case but doesn't jive well with the way that everything else works. There are valid criticisms of the specs, but they have to come from an informed place about what the spec says in the first place.

Let's talk about a few cases where either REST or HTTP (which is clearly RESTful in its design) solves a common web development problem.

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july 2011 by avinash

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Google’s Six-Front War

While the tech world is buzzing about the launch and implications of Google’s new social network, Google+, it’s worth noting that Google isn’t just in a war with Facebook, it’s at war with multiple companies across multiple industries. In fact, Google is fighting a multi-front war with a host of tech giants for control over some of the most valuable pieces of real estate in technology. Whether it’s social, mobile, browsing, local, enterprise, or even search, Google is being attacked from all angles. And make no mistake about it, they are fighting back and fighting back, hard.

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july 2011 by avinash

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5 Advanced Technologies Still Catching Up to Invertebrates | Cracked.com

There's a scientific field called biomimetics that is all about studying nature and stealing its technology. That makes sense --if you want to build a flying machine, you start by looking at birds. But the more we study, the more we find that biomimetics isn't just about building a more fishlike boat. Even the smallest, slimiest creatures employ tech that will some day revolutionize everything from solar panels to TV screens.

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july 2011 by avinash

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Please, please, please stop asking how to find a technical co-founder. - humbledMBA

Listen guys, I'm sorry. But, I just can't do it anymore. I can't keep having this conversation with every non-tech founder. It's just too painful. On you, on me, and everyone else that you've approached. I was once on the search for a technical co-founder, so I can empathize.

But, seriously, Please stop.
Back in the day, I remember going to my favorite startup mentor, Gregg Fairbrothers, and asking him for help finding a technical co-founder. Here's what he said:

I can't help you with that, but all the good entrepreneurs seem to figure it out. Hopefully you will too.

Man, I still love that answer. That's being a founder. If you have a problem, go figure out a way to solve it.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Google+ Help

Official support page for Google+. Use Google+ to share on the web like you would in the real world.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Kindle Direct Publishing: Self-publish to Amazon's Kindle Store

Welcome to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, the fast and easy way to self-publish your books for sale in the Kindle Store.
With Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) you can self-publish your books on the Amazon Kindle Store. It's free, fast, and easy. Books self-published through KDP can participate in the 70% royalty program and are available for purchase on Kindle devices and Kindle apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and Android-based devices. With KDP, you can self-publish books in many languages - including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian - and specify pricing in US Dollars, Pounds Sterling, and Euros. You will also find useful information on our active community forum.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Meet Amazon.com’s first employee: Shel Kaphan - GeekWire

Amazon.com today is approaching 40,000 employees. Seventeen years ago, Shel Kaphan was No. 1.
GeekWire Interview: Shel Kaphan, Amazon.com’s first employee

Part 1: The forgotten founder?
Part 2: Meeting Jeff Bezos
Part 3: Building Amazon.com
Part 4: A larger mission

Long before Amazon turned into a multi-billion dollar online retailing powerhouse, and technology giant, it was just a few people working in a converted garage in Bellevue. Kaphan was its first employee. A computer industry veteran and former Whole Earth Catalog employee who moved to Seattle from Santa Cruz to take the job in 1994, he’s an important character from the region’s technology history whose story has never before been told.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Larry Sanger Blog » Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?

Is there a new anti-intellectualism? I mean one that is advocated by Internet geeks and some of the digerati. I think so: more and more mavens of the Internet are coming out firmly against academic knowledge in all its forms. This might sound outrageous to say, but it is sadly true.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Fourth time's a charm? Why Apple has trouble with cloud computing

On Monday, Apple unveiled iCloud, a new service for remote storage of user data. Some people, including our own Jon Stokes, are skeptical of Apple's chances of getting iCloud to work at scale. And history seems to be on their side. iCloud is at least Apple's fourth attempt to create a viable cloud computing service. The previous incarnations included iTools in 2000, .Mac in 2002, and MobileMe in 2008. As Fortune wrote about MobileMe a few weeks ago, "MobileMe was a dud. Users complained about lost e-mails, and syncing was spotty at best." iTools and .Mac were not exactly resounding successes either.

Apple's perennial difficulty with creating scalable online services is not a coincidence. Apple has a corporate culture that emphasizes centralized, designer-led product development. This process has produced user-friendly devices that are the envy of the tech world. But developing fast, reliable online services requires a more decentralized, engineering-driven corporate culture.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Eight Out Of China’s Top Nine Government Officials Are Scientists | Singularity Hub

Did you know that the president of China is a scientist? President Hu Jintao was trained as a hydraulic engineer. Likewise his Premier, Wen Jiabao, is a geomechanical engineer. In fact, 8 out of China’s top 9 government officials are scientists. What does the scientific prominence atop China’s ruling body say, if anything, about the role of science and technology in China’s ability to compete against the U.S. and the world in terms of innovation and economic might?

Quick, name a scientist member of your government’s top offices.

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june 2011 by avinash

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An interview with Tom Preston-Werner

Who are you, and what do you do?

My name is Tom Preston-Werner. I cofounded GitHub. I like tater tots and beer.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Knight Mozilla News Technology Partnership

Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership (MoJo)
Web developers and designers around the world collaborating to invent the future of news.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Not getting enough sleep? Turn off the technology | Reuters

Dependence on televisions, cellphones and laptops may be costing Americans dearly -- in lack of sleep.

The national penchant for watching television every evening before going to sleep, playing video games late into the night or checking emails and text messages before turning off the lights could be interfering with the nation's sleep habits.

"Unfortunately, cell phones and computers, which make our lives more productive and enjoyable, may be abused to the point that they contribute to getting less sleep at night leaving millions of Americans functioning poorly the next day,"

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june 2011 by avinash

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256 Must-Read Content For All Tech Entrepreneurs | Stanley Tang – The Journey of A Young Tech Entrepreneur

Over the past few months, I have been reading a lot of articles and gathering tons of information about tech startups as I set to launch my first one this fall. I’ve saved many of my favorites and, rather than keeping them to myself, I decided to share my bookmarks to the public.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Sorting Through Apple's Many Announcements - NYTimes.com

What’s even wilder is that Apple is moving away from the concept of the computer as the hub of your digital life, which it once promoted. For the first time, you don’t need iTunes to activate and use an iPhone or iPad. You can now activate it and get software updates, wirelessly, directly to the phone or tablet. For many people, an iPad will suffice as the one home computer.

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june 2011 by avinash

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Canon Europe - EF LENS WORK III EN

EF LENS WORK III

THE EF LENS CONCEPT

CANON'S CHALLENGES

THE EF LENS WORLD (SINGLE FOCAL-LENGTH LENSES)

THE EF LENS WORLD (ZOOM LENSES)

THE EF LENS WORLD (EF-S LENSES)

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june 2011 by avinash

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Notebook / Laptop Reviews and News - Notebookcheck.net

Our aim is to provide serious and competent information about laptops and notebooks. Notebookcheck provides tests, reviews, news, technical information (like our CPU and GPU comparisons) and links to reviews by other sites.

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june 2011 by avinash

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10 More Experimental Features You Should Enable from the Gmail Laboratory - Lifehacker

We've highlighted top 10 Gmail Labs you should enable before, but you'll find more than ten useful features hidden inside Gmail's Laboratory, and Google's releasing new ones all the time. Here are ten more powered-up Gmail Labs worth enabling.

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may 2011 by avinash

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What future for the Macintosh? | Monday Note

This past year, the Mac business went down percentage-wise, from 28.4% of Apple’s total to 20.3% this past quarter, and operating margins are certain to be smaller than the almost obscene 60%+ Apple gets for its iPhone ($620 ASP against an estimated $180 BOM).

With these numbers, why bother with the Mac? Last October, Apple held a Back to the Mac event whose purpose was to answer that one question: Why bother?

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march 2011 by avinash

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Why iPads Aren't Ready For Classrooms... Yet

Textbooks are coming en masse to the iPad, even if they're not here yet. The price of tablets will plummet in the same way laptops have, and smartphones. There will be an abundance of education apps that will unlock the iPad's true potential as a learning device beyond just being another ebook reader. Apple may someday even adopt a Pixel Qi-type display that's easier on the eyes, or an input method that improves on the onscreen keyboard or keyboard accessories. And when those things happen, the iPad and other tablets will be terrific schoolroom companions.

But they haven't yet. And until they do, forcing the iPad into the hands of students—and making their parents buy or lease them—will be a disservice. Fun experiment, maybe. But the guinea pigs in the classroom should be the ones in the cage.

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february 2011 by avinash

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A Better Formula for Economic Growth: Connecting Smart Risk Takers - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education

In Silicon Valley today, diversity is the rule, in terms of both products and people. The region produces chips, computer hardware, business software, search engines, social media, and clean technology. From 1995 to 2005, 52 percent of Silicon Valley's start-up founders were born outside the United States. Immigrants from India and Taiwan have been especially adept at mastering the Valley's rules of engagement. They did this by forming strong social networks that brought their local communities together with those in their home countries. Stanford University, in particular, has become part of the ecosystem of Silicon Valley, with its researchers and faculty maintaining strong, informal connections with businesses.

There are important lessons here for countries that have been trying for decades to replicate Silicon Valley. To boost entrepreneurship, they need to focus their energy not on infrastructure, but on people.

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february 2011 by avinash

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The Creativity Crisis? What Creativity Crisis? - Michael Schrage - Harvard Business Review

The most important thing to understand about America's "crisis of creativity" is that there isn't one. The notion that American business creativity is either at risk or in decline is laughable. Arguments that "Yankee ingenuity" is ebbing into oxymoron are ludicrous. They invite ridicule. So here it comes.

Yes, America's economy is awful. But so what? Hard times haven't nicked, dented or damaged this country's creative core competence. To the contrary, they've made more people more interested in being more creative. Spend serious time at research university labs. Or sit in on 10K business plan competitions. Or wander through Silicon Valley incubators and Texas industrial parks.There's no shortage of creativity and ingenuity here.

This point is vital: genuine creativity isn't about ideas. It's about translating ideas into ingenious products, services and solutions. Ideas are the seeds, not the substance, of creativity. Getting them to take root is easier than it's ever been.

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february 2011 by avinash

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There Are No Technology Shortcuts to Good Education « Educational Technology Debate

To back these assertions, I’ll draw on four different lines of evidence.

The history of electronic technologies in schools is fraught with failures.
Computers are no exception, and rigorous studies show that it is incredibly difficult to have positive educational impact with computers. Technology at best only amplifies the pedagogical capacity of educational systems; it can make good schools better, but it makes bad schools worse.
Technology has a huge opportunity cost in the form of more effective non-technology interventions.
Many good school systems excel without much technology.

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february 2011 by avinash

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Boston Review — Kentaro Toyama: Can Technology End Poverty?

"In the developed world, there is a tendency to see the Internet and other technologies as necessarily additive, inherent contributors of positive value," he writes. "But their beneficial contributions are contingent on an absorptive capacity among users that is often missing in the developing world." He explains this via the thesis that "technology - no matter how well designed - is only a magnifier of human intent and capacity. It is not a substitute."

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february 2011 by avinash

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The Online Photographer: Letter to George

Dear George,

Yes, you are absolutely right, and I apologize. Like many aficionados I am excessively affected by my own preferences and habits, and it leads me to give buying advice that is indeed idiosyncratic. The suggestion that you jump in from the get-go with an investment of $3,195 is indeed preposterous (good word).

I would like to make amends by suggesting an objectively more characteristic 25-step course of action for you. My experience in this field has demonstrated many times that this sequence is broadly very typical, and I think you will find that these new recommendations far more objectively trace the course of most serious photographers' investments in their gear.

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january 2011 by avinash

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Why I am NOT Going to Buy a Computer - Wendell Berry

Like almost everybody else, I am hooked to the energy corporations, which I do not admire. I hope to become less hooked to them. In my work, I try to be as little hooked to them as possible. As a farmer, I do almost all of my work with horses. As a writer, I work with a pencil or a pen and a piece of paper.

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january 2011 by avinash

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Canon EOS 60D Digital Camera - Initial Test - The Imaging Resource!

Canon has long since lured many serious 50D shooters to the 7D and 5D Mark II; now it appears their goal is to lure the Rebel shooters to the Canon 60D and more directly compete with the Nikon D90. That's probably just the right strategy. Most of the important features from the 7D and T2i are included in the Canon 60D, as well as the audio level control from the 5D Mark II and the swivel screen from the Canon G11. It seems like every Canon line has contributed a little something to Canon's entry-level prosumer digital SLR, and the results are quite good.

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january 2011 by avinash

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http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2010/10/whats-really-wrong-with-blackberry-and.html

In my opinion, RIM is indeed in danger, probably a lot more danger than its executives realize. But I don't agree on the reasons most people are giving for why RIM is in trouble, and I think most of the solutions that are being proposed would make the situation worse, not better.

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january 2011 by avinash

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The 10 best Android hacks | PC Pro blog

The web’s massed fanboy armies will debate the relative merits of iOS and Android until the apocalypse, but there’s no denying Google’s OS wins out when it comes to customisation –and, if you’ve taken the plunge and rooted your device, then a whole load more options will become available.

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january 2011 by avinash

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How to Install Ubuntu on Your Nexus One/Android! | Nexus One Hacks Blog

This guide is for those of you who want to install Ubuntu as a sub-system under your Nexus One or any other rooted Android smartphone, I’ve tried to make it easy as possible for everyone.

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january 2011 by avinash

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2011 Watchlist: 6 themes to track - O'Reilly Radar

Now's the time of year for everyone to write about the trends they see in the coming year. I've resisted that in the past, but this year I'll make an exception. We'll see if it becomes a tradition. Here's my quick list of six themes to watch in 2011:

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january 2011 by avinash

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My 7 Favorite Gadgets of the Year: Mobile Technology News «

Which is the best? If pressed to pick my personal favorite among these, it would actually be the Galaxy Tab. That may surprise many, but the device offers a similar experience to the iPad while gaining a level of portability. The Tab works as a 3G mobile hotspot, so I no longer need my Verizon MiFi — a super-useful device that debuted last year. In fact, since I bought my Tab, I’ve only used my Nexus One smartphone for the occasional voice call, which is very telling. The Tab is more useful than my handset, thanks to the bigger display, yet it still goes everywhere with me. Maybe I need to look at a cheap prepaid handset for voice calls in 2011?

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december 2010 by avinash

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Marshall Kirkpatrick, Technology Journalist » Case study: Softrax – powering news for financial executives with RSS

There is so much information flying around in the world today that the role of information-curator, “cool hunter” or trusted collector is becoming an increasingly powerful one to play. Some of the top blogs on the web, multi-million dollar media companies now, are far more focused in vetting the best information from all around the internet than they are in doing their own original reporting.

Obviously original content creation is important – but the point is that if you can offer a timely collection of high quality resources in one place, you can play a leadership role in your industry. People will come back again and again to see what you have had the time (or the technology) to discover.

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december 2010 by avinash

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R.I.P. Delicious: You Were So Beautiful to Me

I've used Delicious in many different ways. In addition to analyzing its patterns to discover early influencers, I've also used it for:

Blog discovery
To Power a Lightweight CMS
Key news threshold
Postrank input
etc.

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december 2010 by avinash

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Help Key: Why 120Hz looks “weird”

I’ve been testing an HD projector here at the house and, in its initial, out-of-the-box setting we found that the picture was ridiculously “sharp.” The picture, I suppose, looked like an old Dr. Who episode where the action on screen is smoother than the background, creating a jarring disparity when watching movies with lots of movement. It’s sometimes called the “Soap Opera Effect.” We decided to do a little digging to figure out why.

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december 2010 by avinash

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Home Theater: Motion Blur

The bad, the ugly, and the 120 hertz.

I have long been a complainer about motion blur with LCDs. It drives me crazy. I have gotten a lot of flack over the years for this, which I really couldn't care less about. (You don't see me making fun of your issues, do you?) I would just like to point this out: Why, if I weren't the only one who hated motion blur with LCDs, would nearly every LCD manufacturer come to market with 120-hertz LCD panels that claim to eliminate motion blur (a problem that they, surprisingly, haven't mentioned before)? Before I rub it in and say, "I told you so," let's look at what causes motion blur, why it may or may not be a big deal, and how a 120-Hz refresh rate can help solve the problem for LCDs.